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"Les Miserables" star (and Golden Globe winner, in case you hadn't heard) Anne Hathaway will continue exploring her theatrical roots as she's signed on for a new screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," according to The Wrap.

"Shrew" follows the tumultuous (and sometimes, shall we say, quite "physical") courtship between Petruchio, a suave and brash ladies' man looking to marry into money, and Katherine, aka Kate, a vicious, ill-tempered ... well, shrew. It's considered one of Shakespeare's funniest comedies ... and it's undoubtedly his raunchiest, thanks to some delicious innuendo-filled verbal wars between the two leads. Get More »